Audiogenic and audiogenic-like seizures: Locus of induction and seizure severity determine postictal prolactin patterns

Pharmacology Biochemistry and Behavior

Volumn 53, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 503-510

  Garcia Cairasco, N ^a   Doretto, M C ^a   Ramalho, M J ^a   Antunes Rodrigues, J ^a   Nonaka, K O ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Audiogenic seizures; Audiogenic like seizures; Inferior colliculus lesions; Inferior colliculus nuclei; Postictal prolactin; Substantia nigra lesions

Indexed keywords

BROMOCRIPTINE; PROLACTIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUDIOGENIC SEIZURE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; BRAIN INJURY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; DISEASE RESISTANCE; DISEASE SEVERITY; ELECTROSTIMULATION; HISTOLOGY; INFERIOR COLLICULUS; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROLACTIN BLOOD LEVEL; RAT; SUBCUTANEOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; TONIC CLONIC SEIZURE;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0029871568     PISSN: 00913057     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0091-3057(95)02040-3     Document Type: Article

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